newbie graphing recommendations ?

[Bryan]

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> Adam wrote:
>> Where should a py newbie start to do some 2D graphs on screen ?
>> PythonGraphApi,
>> Gato, looks interesting
>> pygraphlib,
>> matplotlib,
>> is there a best native Python place to start ?
> 
> The only good and simple way I have found so far to do some free
> graphics with Python in a Window is using PyGame. (You can also use
> TKinter, but it's slower).
> MatPlotLib is very good to graph functions, datasets, etc. and to save
> them to an image file.
> There are other good libs if/when you want 3D graphics.
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile
> 

do you think that pygame would be a good alternative to matplotlib to create 
some graphs such simple bar and line graphs?  i want to animate them as new data 
comes comes in.  i would also like to have the bars and graphs have nice shading 
if possible to give it a really attractive look.  also, do you know if a pygame 
windows can be embedded in a wxPython app?

thanks,

bryan